Pokemon Sleep

Current goal: Cure my insomnia
Play it on: iOS, Android

Reader, I’m not gonna be here next week. I’m going on my first vacation since I got to Kotaku, and part of that means I’m not gonna play too many games while I decompress. But you know what I am going to do? Sleep. I’m gonna be as snug as a bug in a rug. I’m gonna count sheep. I’m gonna astral project to the dream world so I don’t have to be in this one. Trouble is, I’ve been dealing with terrible insomnia for, I don’t know, seven years, maybe? If I’m ever gonna get to the bottom of this, I’ve gotta use every tool available to me. That includes gamifying being unconscious with Pokémon Sleep. As of this writing, I’ve only used it once, and I’m not sure what it’s going to do for me besides give me information about how bad my sleep is (as if I didn’t already know). But it’s got Pikachu in it, and slapping the little yellow guy on something otherwise mundane is the quickest way to make it the most important thing in my life. Ken’s honk-shoo era begins this weekend, baby. — Kenneth Shepard